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Name
  
Vadim Kozhevnikov

Role
  
Writer


Children
  
Nadezhda Kozhevnikova

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Born
  
April 22, 1909 Narym, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire (
1909-04-22
)

Died
  
October 20, 1984, Moscow, Russia

Movies
  
The Shield and the Sword, Meet Baluyev!

Books
  
Shield and Sword: The Career of Johann Weiss, the Soviet Agent in the Nazi Secret Service

Similar People
  
Nadezhda Kozhevnikova, Vladimir Basov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Adolf Hitler

Education
  
Moscow State University

Vadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Вадим Михайлович Кожевников; 22 April 1909 [O.S. 9 April], Narym – 20 October 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.

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Biography

Vadim Kozevnikov was born in a family of Russian ethnicity in the Siberian town of Narym, Tomsk Governorate (present-day Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast), where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.

Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933. Kozhevnikov worked as a war correspondent for Pravda from 1941 to 1945, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union halfway into the German-Soviet War in 1943. He was elected secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1949.

Kozhevnikov was officially recognized as a Hero of Socialist Labor for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet. He was awarded the USSR State Prize following the publication of two of his novels in 1971.

A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov's work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.

Kozhevnikov died on October 20, 1984 in Moscow, aged seventy-five.

Awards

  • Hero of Socialist Labour
  • Order of Lenin (2)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Order of the October Revolution
  • Order of the Patriotic War
  • Order of the Red Star
  • USSR State Prize
  • English translations

  • The Captain, from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. from Archive.org
  • Shield and Sword: The amazing Career of a Soviet Agent in the Nazi Secret Service, MacGibbon and Kee, 1970.
  • Shield and Sword, Mayflower Books, 1973.
  • The Strong in Spirit, Progress Publishers, 1973.
  • Ivan Fomich, from Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 2, Progress Publishers, 1976.
  • Special Subunit: Two Novellas, Imported Publications, 1984.
  • References

    Vadim Kozhevnikov Wikipedia